Tales from Duty Finder: Some make you laugh, some make you cry. Let's vent.

[Fluestergras]

Every AST ever that doesn't have protect cross-classed and/or set in the first slot.

Protect as first cross-class skill is okay, although I prefer Cleric Stance... but this reminds me of a scholar I had when tanking Tam-Tara via roulette. Protect isn't neccessary there, but if I can have it, I want to have, so I asked the scholar for it. "Isn't available here". Okay, I thought, this guy has Cleric Stance as their first cross-class skill, so moar deeps, the fairy will soloheal this anyway. Well, I was very disappointed when this scholar summoned their fairy with Swiftcast ._.

[KaitlanKela]

Yesterday I queued Brayflox's as a tank for the first time (DRK). My friend rolled DRG with me.

Got an AST and a Lancer.

I asked the Lancer, "do you have DRG soul stone?"

"Not yet XD"

So I'm not normally the person that's going to berate someone about not having a soul stone in Brayflox. It's like the lowest level dungeon I would expect it. So, I decide to do the first set of pulls and see how the DPS was. It was actually STELLAR, and I'm all like ??? So I hit search info.

The guy is level 58. Lancer, no Dragoon.

I ask him, "So, I see you're level 58? Is this just for the lolz?"

He's all like, "You know, I leveled through leveling roulette, so I guess I just haven't bothered yet?"

This is not his main. He's got nigh every class leveled into the 50's and several jobs so he obviously knows what he's doing. The DPS is great. So I'm like, "Heck, works for me."

Smoothest run of Brayflox I've ever had.

I got both comms.

[Veralidaine]

Did a Tam-Tara Deepcroft run on my THM alt. The tank had such a hard time holding agro that I had no choice but to go full ice mage in order to keep from becoming MT. The whole dungeon was blizzard I and II, except when I was trying to pull mobs off the healer. I think I died a little tonight.

I've been leveling up blm the past week (just hit 50 yesterday) and I feel your pain. They make us way too overpowering at low levels, almost every dungeon I have issues with the tank holding aggro, even when I pop quelling on cooldown.

[bounddreamer]

I got Titan HM for trial roulette yesterday and queued as WAR. I gave the other tank (PLD, around 54-55) a half min or so to turn on his stance and pull. He didn't, so I turned on Defiance and pulled.

Duty starts smoothly, I have a solid lock on hate, then I notice the Paladin is standing at my elbow, in Shield Oath, Rage of Halone'ing for great justice or...something. I type a quick "go sword oath." He ignores me and keeps spamming aggro combo. Titan jumps up, the island gets smaller, and...Mr Paladin derps right off the edge, where he spends the rest of the fight with rocks for company.

What was particularly hilarious was during final phase heals let me get low and I died to a bomb. OT would have been useful there! But I got raised quickly and got aggro back right away, so we still cleared with a slightly rocky finish.

[AskaRay]

good run

I know when I level LNC I'm gonna have times like this...
(Yes I know. No I don't want my job crystal. No I'm not using LNC for anything serious.)

[Kuroashi]

I usually don't post anything but I want to post this.

Today I was doing my leveling roulette with MNK, got Sohm Al.
Now this run took a hour to finish...

We went through 3 tanks. The first tank, a WAR, left after second pull. The second, DRK, wouldn't turn any of the mob packs around at all. We get to the last boss and they wouldn't tank it at the other end of the arena so we wiped three times because of the meteors, they leave. We did try telling them where to tank it, i even put down a marker, but they didnt listen. We were finally able to beat the boss when the third tank, a PLD, came in. We wiped several times throughout the run.

I gave my comm to the healer since they had go through all that.

[SpiritMuse]

Just had a most excellent run of Aurum Vale. No one even said hi, but everyone knew exactly what to do and it went so smoothly it was almost unreal. Well, except for that one room where we were caught by a few too many adds and well to make a long story short I ended up the last man standing and kiting everything around and around until the rest came back. Gotta love that extra NIN speed. XD

[Kaurie]

but everyone knew exactly what to do and it went so smoothly

Is this actually a rarity? I don't think I've had a bad Aurum Vale run in over a year, even when I went recently with a bunch of newbies :\

[bounddreamer]

Is this actually a rarity? I don't think I've had a bad Aurum Vale run in over a year, even when I went recently with a bunch of newbies :\

It's not that much of a rarity, I've had smooth good runs on all roles.

Was running LNC on my alt this past weekend and the tank kept sprinting on his way to each pull. He also never used Shield Lob (may not have had it) and couldn't hold hate at all. The mobs were on me, my dps partner, my healer, and sometimes the tank had the one he was single targeting. Sometimes. I tried to give him tips about not sprinting, pulling, and just gave up and accepted my role as LNC tank. The healer kept us alive and commed me. -_- Considered swapping my alt's main job to PLD.

[SpiritMuse]

Is this actually a rarity? I don't think I've had a bad Aurum Vale run in over a year, even when I went recently with a bunch of newbies :\

Well it's not often Vote Abandon levels bad, but there does tend to be some kind of trouble usually - people standing in crap or getting hit by stuff they shouldn't be. I've rarely gotten this smooth a run. The bosses in particular just melted like butter, it was awesome.